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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 289
will f{trive to difengage the ftick from each other’s grafp ; and in
this, perhaps, they are affifted on each fide by an equal number of
the by-ftanders: this occafions a fmart ftruggle, till at length the
rope breaks, or the weakeft party gives way, which at once de-
cides the conteft ; when the wager, for there generally is one de-
pending on the event, 1s determined, the prize is affigned to the
victor. Another exercife confifts in two of them faftening their
hands in each other’s belt, ftriving to raife one another from the
ground, and thus to give each other a fall. They are befides ex-
pert wreftlers; and thefe kind of exercifes are found neceflary to
keep their bodies warm, as well as to fill up their intervals of
leifure, when they are upon a journey, during the ftoppages re-
quifite to be made to give their rein-deer an opportunity of bait-
ing; for which purpofe, as has already been obferved, thofe ani-
mals muft dig up the fnow in queft of mofs, as it is not poffible
to carry forage with them in their fledges.
They are in general excellent markfmen; and fome of them
have been known to hit a fmall objeét with a bullet fired from
their pieces, at a confiderable diftance ; and that for a number af
times repeatedly, without a fingle failure,
Vou. II. ’ Pp SECTION
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